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I may adduce Mr. Bagge's 'Madre' (sister to his 'Traveller,' and 

 dam of 'Twilight,' 'Turquoise,' 'Tendresse'), &c.; Sir James 

 Bos well's 'Rosebud' (sister to 'Mildew' and 'Evergreen,' and dam 

 of ' Auchinlech,' 'Vraye Foye,' and the 'Curler'); Mr. Gregson's 

 'Grace' (sister to 'Burdon,' 'Tunstall,' &c., and dam of 'Neville' 

 and 'St. Godric'); Mr. Cooke's 'Catch 'em,' dam of the 'Czar,' 

 'Forward,' and 'Cannon Ball;' also his 'Tippity witch et' (sister to 

 'Kotzebue, and dam of 'Sam' and 'Sable'); besides which is to 

 be found 'Faith' (sister to Scott's 'Marquis,' and dam of 

 'Cinneraria' and 'Rocket'). Going still further back, we find 

 plenty of examples, but they are not so remarkable, because 

 public competition was not so general as at present ; but still we 

 find Mr. Blake's ' Blacklock ' and ' Birdlime,' out of sister 

 to ' Priam,' and Mr. Slater's ' Sandy,' out of sister to ' Solomon,' 

 as well as many other examples of the same kind for it is 

 remarkable, in looking through the pedigree-lists of Messrs. 

 Thacker and Welch, how many winners are out of the sisters 

 of celebrated dogs, they themselves having been so unknown to 

 fame as to be without a distinguishing name. Of late years 

 almost every greyhound has had a name, so that these remarks 

 cannot be carried on through the Coursing Calendar, but number- 

 less examples of good greyhounds from moderate dams might 

 be enumerated, including ' Romping Girl ' out of ' Redwing,' who 

 is also the darn of ' Skedaddler,' and two or three other fair 

 second-raters. On the whole, however, I think that the preponder- 

 ance of evidence is in favour of breeding from winners, provided that 

 they are not worn out by training and hard running, and especially 



